Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-07-15
a. Few Shorter Things.

a Few Shorter Things.
There are ninety perso ns il England
with an income. OF over $500, 600.
Berlin's population increased 49,
600 during the past year.
Mr. Lorenz Reich Of New York hasa
autograph album valued at 81 90, OG0.
He never let's it out Of his sight.
DR.. Thomas, assistant bishop Of
KANSAS, who was renowned as achess
| player, suddenly gave up his favorite
game. Asked the reason for his con-
duct, he said: 81 found that I took
so much interest in the game that
! when was beaten it aroused in me
feelings that could not conscienti-
susly entertain"
! The senior class OF Bowdoin College
has had a composite photograph Ia
ken. Twenty-Five students were the
subjects, and it is said that the
operator has succeeded in bringing
out some OF the leading features OF
several OF the members to perfection,
| "but more particularly of C. c. Choate.
The typical senior is good looking"
Professor Dwight, ofColumbia, says
of Henry Georges theory: "Without
private property in land no man can
have an assured birthplace or burial
| place. No tree can be planted that
| he can call his own, nor can any dwell
ing be erected that will give him as
sured shelter.'
! San Francisco has the reputation
OF being ga mans CITY," and OF hav.
ing fewer homes and fewer children in
it, in proportion to population, than
any city in America. Most of the
business men lunch as we'll as dine at
their clubs, which are all down town.
At some of these excellent table
d'hote dinners are served as lunch
cons at twenty-five cents a head.
A certain Bill Johnson, who has
been sentenced to twenty years i'm
prisonment for an unsuccessful at
tempt at stage robbery in Idaho,
speaks gloomily of the present state
of business in that section. "Stage
after stage has been held up without
getting O. nickel, and it seems as
| though all the money in the country
was in the hands of the bankers, the
railroad managers or the ex press COM
panies." Johnson ought to have
tried Texas.
| Here is some timely information for
the followers Of McGlynn and George
to digest: Ii Henry George or Dr.. Nc
Glynn had ever felled the trees, pulled
the stumps and grubbed out the roots
Or an acre OF "new ground he would
have an infinitely clearer view OF the
land question than he can evolve out
OF his inner consciousness s.-Newburg
Register.
| American books do not average a,
sale of a. thousand apiece. Not one in
a. year sells $4,000, Three magazines
sell far more than 100000 month.
If each copy OF such q magazine dis
| placed a copy Of book, these three
magazines would IN a year kill off s.
600, 900 books.
Chief Engineer George w. Melville
of Arctic fame, has just performed an
unprecedented piece OF work. In less
than two weeks time he has prepared
designs for the machinery offive differ
emit vessels Of the new navy. When
he began his task expert engineers
said he was attempting an impossi-
bility. The plans are for the macnin-
cry OF the Newark, two nineteen knot
vessels and two gunboats.
"Cigarette smoking is doing more
injury to the eyes than anything 7
know Of said an optician recently
to reporter for the New York Mail
and Express Smoking pipes or
cigars is bad enough but there is
something in the paper with which the
cigarette is rolled that is very injuri-
Gus to the eyesight. There are more
men and boys wearing glasses now
than have ever known before, and
attribute it all to excess in tobacco
smoking. Nine out OF ten Germans
wear spectacles. They are inveterate
smokers